TYPICAL

I was going to delve deep into the abyss with why this video, to me, is incredible. . . but I don't want to put my stamp on something that might influence someone's take on it. The epiphany of a song/video that this is and the one I garnered from watching it and listening to it repeatedly were live and without question, our own, respectively.

Mute Math, also known as mutemath. . . from what I've seen, usually goes for broke on the esthetics of a live performance; not detracting from the sound, but c'mon. . . when you do a song backwards while glitter, paint and confetti rain down from smoke machines, there's clearly something behind that. But this time, they turned to a band that was purely sonically based. The video is still eye-catching, with the constant flux of neons and solid camera work, and they, as a band, are a good lookin' group of hipster dudes, but the way they're shown to play. . . it's like watching The Wonders the first time they play That Thing You Do to a live audience: I'm transfixed. 

So that's it. Watch it. It's watching a band at their pinnacle. Whether that's in respect to Letterman, who's got mad clout, or just because they'd been doing things one way for so long and switched gears, they nail it.